Karl Adolf von Plessen
Karl Adolf von Plessen (born March 18, 1678 in Schwerin , † January 30, 1758 in Copenhagen ) was court marshal, chief chamberlain and secret councilor at the Danish court.
family
Karl Adolf von Plessen came from the originally noble Mecklenburg-Holstein noble family von Plessen ; he was the son of the court marshal at the Danish court, Christian Siegfried von Plessen (* 1646; † January 22, 1723), and Sophie Agnes von Plessen, née. von Lepel († 1684). His brother was the Secret Council in the Danish Konseil Christian Ludwig Scheel von Plessen .
Professional background
Karl Adolf von Plessen studied at the Universities of Leiden and Utrecht . From 1696 to 1700 he was the traveling companion of Prince Charles of Denmark, Christian V's son , Danish court marshal and chief chamberlain. He served the West India Company as its president and owned plantations in Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands . At the Danish court he was one of the supporters of pietism . He had a total of 16 schools built on his estates in Mecklenburg and Denmark. He financially supported the Danish-Hallesche Mission in Africa in teaching Africans.
From 1721 he was Privy Councilor in the Danish Konseil and from 1729 Lord Chamberlain of Princess Sophia Hedwig of Denmark . In 1733 he resigned from the Danish civil service. Two years later, Karl Adolf von Plessen became the first curator of the Vemmetofte Monastery, which Sophia Hedwig set up in her will, Adelige Jomfrukloster in Vemmetofte.
Karl Adolf von Plessen was buried in the family burial chapel in the St. Petri Church (Copenhagen) that his father had bought .
Awards
- 1708 White Knight
- 1730 Knight of the Elephant Order
- 1733 Ordre de l'union parfaite
literature
- Max Naumann: The Plessen. Line from the XIII. to XX. Century . Limburg an der Lahn 1971
- Genealogical Handbook of nobility band X . (Volume 119 of the complete series), CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN 0435-2408
- New genealogical-historical news , volume 51, p. 697, digitized biography
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of the Vemmetofte Monastery , accessed on November 30, 2016
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Graves of the von Plessen family
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plessen, Karl Adolf von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish Court Marshal, Chamberlain and Privy Councilor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 18, 1678 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schwerin |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1758 |
| Place of death | Copenhagen |